Sean Michael Kerner

“This is good. This IPO sends a clear signal to the people at Zynga and Facebook. The signal is that it’s time to move forward.” Ben Holmes, president of IPO research firm Morningnotes.com, commenting on the blockbuster IPO of Groupon. (WSJ) “Is it blazingly fast? No. “Is it fast enough? Yes.”  Karl Freund, VP of […]

From the ‘Time Flies’ files: The Eclipse project officially turns 10 today. Time sure does fly. It seem like just yesterday that I was writing about the fifth anniversary of Eclipse. Eclipse started out as just an open source IDE that was open sourced by IBM, that’s the genesis. The broader Eclipse effort really took […]

Calxeda announced on Tuesday its ARM-based EnergyCore Server-on-Chip (SoC) architecture, which includes an 80-Gigabit fabric switch on the same piece of silicon. The EnergyCore is a critical component of HP’s Project Moonshot effort that aims to use low-energy ARM-based servers to reduce data center cost and complexity. “The pace of new server deployments today is […]

Network infrastructure vendor Infoblox this week announced a new hardware appliance to help accelerate DNS delivery. The Infoblox-4010 DNS appliance is all about helping service providers deliver DNS services at scale. The new appliance can service more than 200,000 DNS queries per second, according to Infoblox. When clustered together with multiple appliances the system can […]

Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) has announced an executive level shakeup in the company’s security operations. Chris Young is set to join Cisco as the new Senior Vice-President of Cisco’s security business. Young will be joining Cisco as of November 14th. Young had previously been Senior Vice President, products at RSA. “Young will take over leadership of a […]

How a security researcher discloses a vulnerability is often as important as the discovery of the vulnerability itself. To further that end, security services vendor Secunia, which has been providing security advisories to the market for nearly a decade, is now expanding their efforts with the The Secunia Vulnerability Coordination Reward Program (SVCRP). The SVCRP […]

HP wants to reinvent the data center with a new generation of low-energy, highly efficient servers. The effort is collectively being dubbed, ‘Project Moonshot’ and involves low power processors from ARM as well as new approaches for architecting and sharing data center server resources. “We’re unveiling what we believe is the future of extreme low […]

From the ‘Linux Tech for Windows Users’ files: How is Ubuntu gaining users? One way is by appealing to Windows users with Ubuntu One. During the Ubuntu Developer Summit this week, Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu praised the Ubuntu One team for their recent Ubuntu One for Windows launch. With Ubuntu One for Windows […]

One of the most popular models for cloud usage and deployment is the Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) model. PaaS models to date haven’t always been as enterprise-focused as they should be according to OpenLogic, which is why the company is launching the CloudSwing PaaS. CloudSwing supports multiple languages and platforms including, Java, Ruby, PHP and JavaScript with […]

Mark Shuttleworth makes no apologies for the Ubuntu Unity Linux desktop interface, in fact he sees it as the foundation for his company’s platform strategy as the company moves beyond desktops, servers and the cloud. Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu Linux, delivered a keynote address today at the Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS), reminding the Ubuntu […]

How do you make an Enterprise mobile app? That’s a question that HP is aiming to help answer with a new set of services to help enable enterprises to define and achieve their mobile goals. The new offerings include workshops, mobile application services and a mobile enterprise strategy assessment. “Enterprise grade apps have to be […]

The emerging OpenFlow approach to building programmable, scalable networks is continuing to gain traction. The latest vendor to jump into the fray is Juniper Networks with a Software Development Kit (SDK) that enables Juniper users to try out OpenFlow. “There is a big divide between applications and the network that applications run on,” Mike Bushong […]